Wesley Corpus

The light that shines so clear ; Now the revealing Spirit send, And srive us ears to hear. Praying for a Blessing. 4 Before us make thy goodness pass, Which here by faith we know ; Let us in Jesus see thy face, And die to all below. 1 TNSPIRER of the ancient Seers, J- Who wrote from thee the sacred page, The same through all succeeding years, To us, in our degenerate age, The Spirit of thy word impart, And breathe the life into our heart 2 While now thine oracles we read. With earnest prayer and strong desire, O let thy Spirit from thee proceed, Our souls to' awaken and inspire ; Our weakness help, our darkness chase, And guide us by the Light of Grace ! 3 Whene'er in error's paths we rove, The living God through sin forsake, Our conscience by thy Word reprove, Convince and bring the wanderers back, Deep wounded by thy Spirit's sword, And then by Gilead's balm restored. 4 The sacred lessons of thy grace, Transmitted through thy Word, repeat ; And train us up in all thy ways, To make us in thy will complete ; Fulfil thy love's redeeming plan, And bring us to a perfect man. 5 Furnish'd out of thy treasury, O may we always ready stand To help the souls redeem'd by thee, In what their various states demand ; To teach, convince, correct, reprove, And build them up in holiest love ! Jt) Describing Formal Religion. *HYMN 90. l. m. 1 rl^HUS saith the Lord of earth and heaven, A The King of Israel and his God, Who hath for all a ransom given, And bought a guilty world with blood : " I am from all eternity ; To all eternity I am : There is none other God but Me ; Jehovah is my glorious Name. 2 " The Rise and End, the First and Last, The Alpha and Omega I ; Who could, like me, ordain the past, Or who the things to come descry ? Foolish is all their strife, and vain, To' invade the property divine ; 'Tis mine the work undone to' explain, To call the future now is mine. 3 " Fear not, my own peculiar race ; I have to thee my counsel show'd, The word of sure prophetic grace,